Mitt Romney set for comeback as Orrin Hatch to retire

Senator Hatch's announcement that he will not run in this year's mid-terms could spell bad news for President Donald Trump

Suspense builds over Trump secretary of state search

The world is keenly awaiting what will be his most prestigious appointment – America s next top diplomat – scrutinizing the process for clues as to the direction US policy will take after the Republican is sworn in on January 20

Trump vows to put aside doubts over business empire

In one of his trademark pre dawn tweetstorms the Manhattan real estate mogul promises that he will reveal a plan next month to put aside his great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country

Trump mulls diplomat pick, plans victory tour

Donald Trump steps up his contentious search for a secretary of state before he ditches cabinet interviews later this week to lead a victory tour kicking off in the swing state of Ohio

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Trump meets Petraeus in fraught quest for top diplomat

Trump spokesman Jason Miller says the president elect has met a number of well qualified candidates but declines to say how close he may be to a decision on the secretary of state vacancy

Trumps picks women, including a critic, for cabinet

UPDATED Donald Trump begins to broaden the base of his future cabinet nominating two conservative women including a critic after his earlier picks rewarded campaign loyalists

Trump meets with Romney, no word on job offer

Romney: We had a far reaching conversation with regards to the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States of real significance

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Romney will not run for president in 2016

2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney says he wants to give other members of the GOP to be the next nominee

Romney, mulling 2016 run, jabs Clinton, Obama

The 2012 Republican nominee returns to the political spotlight this month after telling donors he remains interested in a third shot at the White House

Republicans fulfill threat to networks over Hillary

GOP denies CNN NBC rights to carry presidential primary debates

Romney's first major speech since presidential defeat

The Repubican candidate told a crowd in Maryland that he remains optimistic about their movement and will help them return to power in Washington after the Obama era

Thoughts on the eve of Obama's inauguration

I am sure that as I watch the inaugural rites on live television I will also remember Mitt Romney and how he killed his lifelong dream of becoming president

Rappler's 10 viral videos of 2012

Rappler picks 10 out of the Buzz Feed list of 50

With Romney filing, 2012 election spending tops $2B

Romney s filings show spending in the 2012 presidential race rose to a record 2 billion

After bitter race, Obama, Romney have ‘friendly lunch’

Obama and Romney promise talk about America s challenges in a private lunch meeting at the White House

Obama, Romney to have lunch Thursday

US President Barack Obama will host his defeated Republican foe Mitt Romney for a conciliatory private lunch at the White House on Thursday

Post-election: 3 days in Washington

Later that night the news came out that Romney blamed his loss on Obama giving Latinos blacks and other minorities gifts to vote for the President

Romney breaks silence in bitter broadside at Obama

Mitt Romney blamed his defeat on gifts showered by the president on his female African American and Hispanic supporters

INFOGRAPHIC: 2012 U.S. Electoral Map

UPDATED Here is the 2012 US Election Map showing the distribution of the electoral votes as of Saturday November 10

#USvote: Electoral College tally

UPDATED Nov 11 Here is the Electoral College tally for the 2012 US presidential election based on projections from the major US networks ABC NBC CBS CNN FOX and the New York Times

At last, Florida results in: Obama wins state

US President Barack Obama has won Florida s 29 electoral votes in the presidential election further fattening his substantial margin of victory in what had been predicted to be a close race

A decade of change marks the U.S. elections

The Democrats won this election because they were not afraid to mingle with minorities and put their needs at the forefront of their platform

Social Media Wrap: #4moreyears, Donald Trump, and Iron Baby

Everything and anything viral that happened from November 3 9 2012

Meet the twins: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

A Kenyan mom names her newborn twins after the US Presidential candidates

Florida vote count delay reminiscent of 2000 debacle

Presidential votes are still being counted in Florida a protracted process that has evoked memories of the acrimonious 2000 election that was finally resolved by the US Supreme Court over a month later

Israel braces for Obama 'payback' after re-election

Tensions between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu surfaced during the former s first term

10 takeaways from the U.S. presidential race

The US presidential election – with its unending stream of nail biting moments – was a consuming spectacle that showcased the contrast between the world views of the two parties and after the dust had settled announced the birth of a changed America

#TalkThursday with Amb. Cuisia: U.S. elections and its impact on Asia

Rappler talks to PH Ambassador Jose Cuisia in this edition of TalkThursday

Waiting on Obama

Voting for the first time there was a possibility that his candidate would lose And the waiting was unbearable

US stocks dive after Obama's reelection

In the first half hour of trade the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 197 98 points 1 49 percent to 13 047 70

'America has spoken'

America has spoken and chosen President Obama for a second term says US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas

Obama to America: 'Best is yet to come'

In his victory speech re elected US President Barack Obama assures the American people that the country would move forward

Romney concedes, congratulates Obama

Republican candidate Mitt Romney conceded defeat to President Barack Obama hours after the polls closed and called for his supporters to back and pray for his opponent

'This happened because of you,' tweets Obama

Creating history again President Barack Obama becomes only the second Democrat since World War II to win a second 4 year White House term

US election day caps $6-B spree

Six billion dollars That s how much money has been blown to influence the US election race that reached the finish line with the November 6 vote

Ohio polls close; waiting game begins

Polls closed in crucial swing state Ohio

CNN's Empire State Building gimmick: Solid or silly?

From holograms to the Empire State Building CNN continues its election gimmick streak

LIVE: Obama wins, say U.S. media

LIVE COVERAGE of the 2012 US presidential election November 6 2012

Voters in full force for U.S. poll finale

Freezing temperatures in the northeast light drizzle in Chicago and a threat of thunderstorms in Florida did little to deter citizens from lining up at polling stations

Mood Meter amused over US election parodies

Watch Barack Obama and Mitt Romney dance to Psy s Gangnam Style sing Katy Perry s Hot and Cold and rap Yes you read that right

What the U.S. elections can mean for Filipinos

The winner can spell a lifetime of difference for those here who brave a daily battle of straddling two worlds to make life for families back home better

Tiny New Hampshire town casts first White House votes

The first in the nation vote held shortly after midnight was tied for the first time in its history another indication of the knife s edge separating the two candidates

Obama, Romney end tumultuous White House campaign

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made their final cases to Americans on election eve Monday November 5 capping a grueling negative multi billion dollar campaign and handing their fates to voters

#Rappler Assignments: Help us cover the U.S. elections!

This week your Rappler Assignment is to send in photos and videos of the US elections

Deeply divided U.S. votes for next leader

Rappler s Carmela Fonbuena reports from Ohio one of the battleground states in the United States most expensive presidential election so far

Happy Halloween in Jersey on the eve of U.S. polls

The vote is the only time you can tell officials to get lost by throwing them out of office and embracing a governance philosophy that you feel is good for the country